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David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance (1916). Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera and narrative techniques, and its immense popularity set the stage for the dominance of the feature-length film. It also proved extremely controversial at the time and ever since for its negative depiction of Black Americans and their supporters, and its positive portrayal of slavery and the Ku …
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- American Experience (1988) as Self
- Hollywood Black (2024) as Self (archive footage)
- The Birth of a Nation (1915) Writer
- Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) Scenario Writer
- The King of Kings (1927) Assistant Director
- Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919) Director
- The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995) as Self (archive footage)
- San Francisco (1936) Second Assistant Director
- The Life of General Villa (1914) Supervising Producer
- Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty (2020) as archive footage
- Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007) as Self (archive footage)
- The Renunciation (1909) Director
- Hoodoo Ann (1916) Writer
- The Sorrows of Satan (1926) Director
- The Tramp and the Dictator (2002) as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Blind Love (1912) Director
- Sweet Revenge (1909) Writer
- Judith of Bethulia (1914) Director
- Three Friends (1913) Director
- Way Down East (1920) Director
- The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) Director
- The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913) Director
- Home, Sweet Home (1914) Director
- 1776, or The Hessian Renegades (1909) Director
- They Would Elope (1909) Director
- Fifty-Fifty (1916) Producer
- Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists (1998) as Self (archive footage)
- Orphans of the Storm (1921) Director
- A Romance of Happy Valley (1919) Director
- A Flash of Light (1910) Director
- Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (2008) as Self (archive footage)
- Her Sacrifice (1911) Director
- Edgar Allen Poe (1909) Director
- The Expiation (1909) Director
- The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961) as Self (archive footage)
- Hearts of the World (1918) Director
- Don Quixote (1916) Supervisor of Production Resources
- Betty of Greystone (1916) Story
- The Rose of Kentucky (1911) Director
- The Broken Locket (1909) Writer
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Most-watched D.W. Griffith films currently: The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916), The King of Kings (1927), Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919), The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995).
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Selected TV credits: American Experience (1988), Hollywood Black (2024).
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